CVE-2022-0279 (GCVE-0-2022-0279)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-02-21 10:46 – Updated: 2024-08-02 23:25
VLAI
Title
AnyComment < 0.2.18 - Comment Rating Increase/Decrease via Race Condition
Summary
The AnyComment WordPress plugin before 0.2.18 is affected by a race condition when liking/disliking a comment/reply, which could allow any authenticated user to quickly raise their rating or lower the rating of other users
Severity
3.1 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-362 - Race Condition (Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Unknown AnyComment Affected: 0.2.18 , < 0.2.18 (custom)
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Credits
Brandon Roldan
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